Lubricating device for axles.



Patented July !7, [900. J. SEITEB.

LUBRICATING DEVICE FOR AXLES. icaton filed Apr. 25, 1900.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN SITER, OF EAST PALESTINE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO NVILLIAM I-I. HELMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

LUBRICATING DEVlCE FOR AXLES.

SPECIFICATION form'g part of Letters Patent No. 653922, dated July 17, 1900.

Application filed April 25, 1900. Serial No. 14,291. (Ne model.)

TO (oZZ whom 't may concarn:

Be it known that l, JOHN SEITER, a citizen of the United'States of America, residing at East Palestine, in the countyof Oolumbiana and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lubricating De-` vices 'or Axles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact de scription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying draWings, which form a part of this specificaton.

My invention relates to an improved lubricating device for axles and other journals; and it consists in the certain details of construction and combination of parts, as Will be fully described hereinafter.

In the acconpanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side sectional elevation of an ordinary Wagon-axle and box provided with my improved means for lubricating the same. Fig. 2 is an end sectional elevation of the axle, taken on the line X X of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation taken through the rear portion of the axle, showing the softrubber band and the nozzle of an ordinary oil-can passed beneath the same. Eig. 4 is a sectional perspective view of the rubber band;

To construct a lubricating device in accordance with myinvention, and thereby provide a means Whereby axles and other journals may be lubricated and at the same time form an oil tight and dust-proof box about the journal, I take the ordinary axle and box, such as are in general use on wagons and other vehicles, the same consisting of the axle or journal 1, provided at the one end With a nut 14 and at the other With annular flanges 5 and 7 to form an intermediate groove 6, in which a soft-rubber Washer 1:2 is fitted. Formed along the length of the axle lis an oilgroove 3, which leads to an opening through the fiange 5 and a recess 9, formed in the second fiange 7. An annular oil groove 2 is rection of its length, and is fitted at each end with Washers 15.

To lubricate the journal l, it is only neces sary to introduce the pointed nozzle 16 of an oil-can beneath the soft-rnbber Washer 12, as shown at Fig. 3 of the drawings, and When the several grooves 3 l, &e are filled the said nozzleis withdrawn and the oil confiued therein by the said soft-rubber Washer 12.

By this Construction and arrangement the journal is keptfree from dust and the box ll rendered oil-tight. P i

Various slight modifications and changes may be made in the general details of con struction without departing from the Spirit of the invention. Therefore I do not confine myself to that shown and described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described lubricating device for axles and other journals, consisting of the journal 1, provided with the oil-grooves ex= tending in the direction of its length, and about the same, the annnlar groove 6, the opening 10 leading to the oil-grooves 3, and the recess 9 arranged opposite, in a manner that will pernit the pointed nozzle of an oil-can to be introduced beneath a soft-rubber Washer 12 in said annular groove 6, and the box having oil-grooves, substantially as and for the purpose described. V

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two sub scribing witnesses. V

' JOHN SEITER. Witnesses:

JOHN GROETZINGER,

M. E. HARRISON. 

